Alec

Alec was a French pagan mercenary who served as Sebastian de Poitiers' bodyguard during his brief regency over France in 1557.

Biography
Alec was born in France to a family which secretly practiced heresy, and he befriended fellow heretic Diane de Poitiers during their youths. He later became a mercenary, and, in 1557, he was hired by Diane to serve as bodyguard to her son, Sebastian de Poitiers, during his temporary regency over France as King Henry II of France was absent in Rome. He foiled several assassination and blackmail plots against Sebastian, helping him implicate Catherine de Medici in a plot to poison him and helping him cover up his relation to Isobel Derant, his cousin, whose father had been executed for treason.